Silt Strider TES3MP

Getting in

How to join

Five steps, and the launcher does most of them. Budget half an hour for the first install, mostly download time.

Before you start

  • To be 18 or over. Silt Strider is an 18+ server and there are no exceptions. See the rules.
  • A legitimate copy of Morrowind, Game of the Year edition. Steam or GOG both work. We do not distribute the game itself, only the mods and the client.
  • Windows. The launcher is Windows only right now. Linux is in-progress (including Steam Deck!)
  • Roughly 40 GB free for the required tier, more if you take the overhaul mods.
  • A Discord account. Downloads are gated behind server membership, see step 1.
Why the Discord gate? The pack contains several hundred third-party mods. Handing that out to the open internet is not something we have the rights to do, so the launcher only issues download access to people who are actually here to play on the server.

The steps

  1. Join the Discord

    Come into the server Discord and read the Server Guide and installation channel.

  2. Download the launcher

    The current build is pinned in the Discord in the installation instructions. It is a single executable. Put it somewhere with room to work, such as its own folder on a drive with space, and not inside your Morrowind install.

  3. Point it at your Morrowind install

    On first run the launcher asks where Morrowind lives. It reads the original data files from there and leaves them alone. Nothing is written back into your Steam or GOG copy.

  4. Let it pull the pack

    You sign in with Discord once, the launcher checks your role, and then it downloads the mod pack and the TES3MP client. This is the slow part. The required tier is the default; the overhaul tier is opt-in and much heavier.

  5. Connect

    Hit play. The launcher points the client at the live server for you, so there is no address to type in under normal circumstances.

Server addresses

You should not normally need these, since the launcher fills them in. They are here for when something goes wrong and someone in Discord asks you to connect by hand.

Live
play.siltstrider.com
Development
dev.siltstrider.com
The development server is not the one you want. It runs unfinished builds, it gets restarted without warning, and characters there are not guaranteed to survive. Play on the live server unless someone has specifically asked you to test something.

If it goes wrong

The launcher says you are not authorised

That means Discord did not properly authenticate you. Check you are still in the server, and if you are, please post in the technical-help channel.

The download keeps stopping

Large transfers over a flaky connection are the usual cause. The launcher can resume, so start it again rather than deleting anything. If it fails in the same place repeatedly, say so in Discord with the file it stopped on.

It launches but you cannot connect

Usually a version mismatch after a pack update. Run the launcher again and let it update before connecting. If it still fails, the server may simply be down, which gets announced in Discord.

Join the Discord Read the rules first